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How to Minor in Computer Science

The following provides an overview of information for students interested in minoring in CS; these changes to the curriculum are applicable to students who declare a CS minor after 6/1/2009.

Required Courses

A minor in Computer Science consists of 13-14 credits of coursework. These credits include the following required courses – note that MATH 125 is a prerequisite course to CSCI 127; however, MATH 125 does not count towards the Computer Science Minor.

In addition, students will be required to take at least one 3-credit elective selected from Computer Science offerings numbered 135 or above. Although you may take any Computer Science course numbered 135 or above, courses that require only one or more of the above courses as prerequisites include:

Learning Outcomes

After successfully completing a Computer Science minor, students will:

understand the relationship between computer architectures and software systems,

be able to implement the solution to a computing problem in a high-level programming language with a program of non-trivial size,

be able to manipulate and query data using a relational database system, and

acquire some more advanced knowledge in an elective area.

Possible Course Sequence

It is important to realize that the minor in Computer
Science cannot be completed in one or two semesters. Below are a few
suggestions on how the minor can be completed, but please see the abbreviated
list of courses and prerequisites.